Harper Beckham turns 15 on Friday. By every account her parents David and Victoria will make the day as special as they possibly can — the celebrations, the gifts, the family surrounding her with love.
But the one thing she actually wants is not something anyone can wrap up and give her.
Since Brooklyn Beckham's falling out with his parents, he has stopped speaking to Harper entirely. The two were once genuinely close — the kind of sibling bond that people who knew the family always remarked on. Now, for the second year running, her birthday is approaching and there is silence from her eldest brother.
Sources close to the family say Harper is heartbroken. She cannot fully understand why a dispute between Brooklyn and their parents has meant losing contact with her too. She and Brooklyn never had a cross word between them. The estrangement was never about her — but she is living with the consequences of it anyway.
Last year Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz both posted the same old photograph of themselves with Harper on Instagram as a public birthday message. There was no private call. No visit. A post.
This year nobody is expecting anything different.
David and Victoria, by all accounts, find it genuinely painful to watch. They can surround Harper with every other member of the family. They cannot give her the one thing she keeps hoping for.
She is 15. She just wants her brother back.